When: May 7 to 9, 2024
Where: Virtual and in-person at NASA HQ in Washington, D.C., USA
Workshop Material
Additional materials such as miro boards, presentations, and notes are also now available through the dedicated Zenodo repository.
Read the workshop report here.
Description
The 2024 Software for the NASA Science Mission Directorate Workshop aims to explore the current opportunities and challenges for the various categories and lifecycle stages of software that are relevant for activities funded by the NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD). This includes increasing the visibility of software being developed and igniting wider collaborations on those challenges between centers, missions, data repositories, and sciences.
We invite the community to this hybrid workshop to discuss these topics, identify opportunities and challenges in each, and set priorities for paths forward as possible. The workshop will be hosted at NASA HQ in Washington, D.C. from Tuesday, May 7 to Thursday, May 9. There will be no registration fee and the meeting will be virtual with an option for in-person attendance. In-person attendance will be limited by venue capacity.
Key Objectives
- Bring together those interested in software for the NASA Science Mission Directorate to facilitate new collaborations across centers and sciences.
- Identify opportunities and challenges in different stages of the software lifecycle.
- Identify software being developed, areas of expertise, resources, and best practices for the NASA software community.
- Provide community feedback to prioritize paths forward.
Who Is This For?
The target audience for this event is primarily NASA employees and contractors working on SMD missions, data repositories, or at centers or partners. The meeting will be held openly and others are welcome to join. In-person attendance will prioritize NASA employees and contractors.
Future events will be organized with a focus on research software for Earth and space sciences.
Code of Conduct
This meeting will follow the Transform to Open Science Code of Conduct.
Workshop Agenda
The workshop agenda will be continuously updated before and during the workshop. Please see the General Workshop Information folder for a copy of the agenda, the workshop guidebook, and code of conduct.
Workshop Recordings
Recordings are now available for each session of the 2024 Software for the NASA Science Mission Directorate Workshop. Follow the links below for the unlisted YouTube videos.
Invited Talk on Policy and Processes: Matt Palmer
Invited Talk on Community Software Efforts at NASA: Julie Barnum
Lightning Breakout 1A — Re-recording coming soon
Organizing Committees
This event is administered by a Program Committee and an Executive Committee.
Program Committee
Chair: Rebecca Ringuette, NASA GSFC
Crystal Gummo, NASA LaRC
Jon Jenkins, NASA ARC
Maria Kuznetsova, NASA GSFC
Paul Ramirez, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Amanda Saravia-Butler, NASA ARC
Leo Singer, NASA GSFC
Josh Steele, Applied Physics Laboratory
Ashish Acharya, University of Alabama, Huntsville/NASA MSFC
Executive Committee
Lead: Rebecca Ringuette, NASA GSFC
Steven Crawford, NASA Office of the Chief Science Data Officer
Brian Thomas, NASA GSFC
Mark Parsons, University of Alabama, Huntsville/NASA OCSDO
Demitri Muna, Agile Sciences/NASA OCSDO
Iman Nasif, Booz-Allen Hamilton/NASA OCSDO
Points of Contact
If you have any additional questions about this event, please contact:
- Rebecca Ringuette (rebecca.ringuette@nasa.gov) – Lead Event Point of Contact
- Demitri Muna (demitri.muna@nasa.gov) – Lead Event Coordinator
NASA Official
Steve Crawford (steven.m.crawford@nasa.gov)